Re: Dictionnary search extension

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

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Bastian Blankenburg wrote:
| For the latter you may be right, but often the words I don't understand
| are distributed over sentences, and I'm not much of a batch-learner :)
| So most of the time I'd wish to translate, see the result in a new
| window which is automatically switched to, and then simply close it to
| go back. But well, that's only me.

I see what you mean. I have thought of the perfect solution: use
gnome-dictionary!

gnome-dictionary has a GNOME_GDictApplet bonobo server, so an extension
could load it through bonobo. Imagine: right-click on selected text, go
to "Look up Word..." and up pops the dictionary window. It's much nicer
than a web page anyway, it's a smaller, unobtrusive window, and it
really shows off the kind of things you can do with an integrated
desktop. In my opinion, that's the kind of extension which really says,
"killer app."

Jean-François: what do you think? :)

(I still think in a more general sense having smart bookmarks in a
context menu might be neat, but I think dictionaries are a special case.)

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Adam Hooper
adamh densi com
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